Quantitative Researcher

3 weeks ago


Boston, United States The Ladders Full time
Job Description: Quantitative Researcher

Team Overview:

  • Seeking Quantitative Researchers to join the collaborative and data-driven Research team.
  • This team focuses on generating investment ideas, converting those ideas into signals, back-testing, and using them to forecast returns, risks, and trading costs.
Responsibilities:
  • Responsibilities will evolve with experience and include merging and analyzing large data sets, assessing historical panel data quality, and conducting exploratory statistical analysis on complex data from various sources.
  • Maintain production-quality code for the investment process and research predictable patterns in asset returns, risks, and trading costs.
  • Perform portfolio construction research using simulation tools and work with software engineers to integrate new data sources from third-party vendors.
  • Participate in data architecture decisions to support the Research data platform.
Qualifications:
  • Undergraduate or graduate degree in finance, mathematics, economics, or a related quantitative field.
  • Demonstrated academic or professional success (recent graduates welcome).
  • Strong skills in analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving areas.
  • Knowledge of probability, statistics, regression analysis, time-series analysis, linear algebra, and optimization.
  • Experience with statistical computing environments like Python, Stata, R, or MATLAB.
  • Understanding of finance, especially equities and derivatives, and a passion for financial markets.
  • Excellent communication skills and high energy with a strong work ethic.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Good grasp of empirical asset pricing and familiarity with financial data products.
  • Experience with stock market data sets.


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